Motivational Quotes

Ideas

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

- Victor Hugo

Best Quotes about Ideas

If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Proust, Marcel

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

Sutton, Percy

Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.